J. A. Riggins, Arizona state text book director, has been appointed deputy state superintendent of schools to succeed Frank St. John who resigned recently.

The report of the survey of the schools of Watertown, New York, has been issued by the board of education. Dr. George D. Strayer directed this survey. He was assisted by Professors N. L. Engelhardt, J. R. McGaughy, Paul R. Mort, Carter Alexander, Annie E. Moore, M. B. Hillegas, Franklin W. Johnson, and Dr. Percival M. Symonds.

L. T. Tustin, supervisor of rural schools in Mercer County, West Virginia, has been appointed to a position in the State Division of Rural Schools.

Dean Bertha M. Ronan, Central Normal School, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, has been appointed national chairman of the committee on recreation of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.

The citizens of Fairfield County, South Carolina, have requested the county delegation to include $3600 in the annual budget for an additional survey of the county. This survey will be conducted by members of the faculty of the University of South Carolina, Winthrop College, and members of the state department of education. R. A. Mears of Ridgeway is chairman of the survey committee.

At the last meeting of the Virginia Educational Conference, State Superintendent Harris Hart said that the total fund available for the public schools of Virginia in 1923 and 1924 was $22,604,651. In that year Virginia spent for the salaries of teachers $12,298,243. He said that Virginia needs not less than $27,000,000 to operate its public schools effectively.

The commission on inter-racial co-operation, organized by a group of white and colored men of the South directly after the world war to stem the tide of racial conflict, has adopted for the current year the slogan, "Better Schools Everywhere," according to the secretary, Dr. George E. Haynes. Efforts for better sanitation, hospital accommodations, street improvement, library and playground facilities, agricultural training and improved conditions of travel in the South will be other objectives of the 1925 program.

Dr. L. A. Pechstein, dean of the college of education of the University of Cincinnati, announces a five-year course for prospective teachers of public school art. The Cincinnati Art Academy and the University are sponsors of this new course. Dr. Pechstein says that the course is co-ordinate with other five year programs of the college of education, and that it is based upon the Cincinnati plan of cooperative teacher training. It appears that the first two years of the course are spent in technical instruction in art at the art academy. 'An abundance of liberal arts and education courses are provided for the remaining three years. The last year is devoted to the parttime co-operative student teaching with pay in the city schools. Other five-year courses of the college of education are in the fields of the elementary, junior and senior high schools,

J. M. McCONNELL, Commissioner of Education for Minnesota, was recently re-elected by the state board of education for a term of six years. The length of term is fixed by law. Mr. McConnell has served in his present position during the past eight years. Two of those years he was under appointment, by Governor Burnquist, as state superintendent of education. When the law which created the state board of education became effective that body promptly elected Mr. McConnell state commissioner of education. At the time of Mr. McConnell's appointment he was head of the department of sociology in the state teachers college at Mankato where he had served his state most successfully as instructor.

physical education, kindergarten, home economics, and public school music. Graduates of these five year programs receive preferred appointment in the Cincinnati public schools, state certification, and have approximately 50 per cent of the requirements completed for the master of arts degree. In addition they have had their year of student teaching under actual public school conditions of a character almost ideal for furthering their professional growth and deepening a student attitude of mind.

The board of education at Moundsville, West Virginia, will establish an endowment fund to provide for an annual course of lectures on history, art, literature, and economics. This course is made possible by the will of the late Charles A. Showacre, an attorney. The only condition imposed upon the school board is that "the lecturer shall not be a minister of any church, nor espouse any religion in his lectures."

It is said that students of the University of Michigan spend $80,000, annually, for dances.

Statistics recently made public by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs show that the total Indian population of the United States in 1924 was 346,962, not including 60,000 who have

surrendered their tribal identity. This is the highest number recorded since 1857. In 1857 there were 379,264 red men in this country. In 1887 there were 243,299. While there has been a slight falling off in the birth rate, the Indian has learned the white man's methods in combating disease, thus increasing his number by the prolongation of life.

The mothers of 160,000 Camp Fire Girls had

a holiday the week of March 15, when the organization celebrated its thirteenth anniversary by taking over the responsibility of homekeeping. During school days this meant doing as much housework as possible, but during the week-end it meant that each girl was hostess to her father and mother. One restriction was imposed-the girls must keep away from delicatessen shops. This gave them a chance to demonstrate the achievements of 1924, which was a record year, as 575,600 homecraft honors were won by members who cooked and served at least two Sunday dinners without help and have mastered the art of biscuit making. Planning a budget was part of their duties for the week-end. In addition to meal management the family mending, darning, pressing, room-cleaning, and putting up lunches for other members of the family were included.

The board of education and the StudentTeachers Council of the Sparta, Wisconsin, high school have ruled that no boy may represent that school in any athletic event, in any contest, or hold any school office, if he uses tobacco.

Professor Charles E. Merriam, University of Chicago, was elected president of the American Political Science Association at its recent annual meeting.

George W. Wannamaker Jr., superintendent of the Calhoun County, South Carolina, schools has accepted the superintendency of the St. Matthews schools in that state.

Dr. Homer G. Bishop, Cornell University, has been appointed assistant professor of psychology at Smith College.

Dr. Joseph S. G. Bolton, professor of English, Syracuse University, is the new head of the English department of Skidmore College. J. W. Parmley, Ipswich, South Dakota, has been appointed a member of the state board of regents of education, with the Northern State Teachers College, Aberdeen, as his special charge.

E. C. Warriner, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, has been re-elected for the sixth time as president of the Michigan Teachers' Retirement Fund Board.

The Justin Winsor prize, offered by the American Historical Association for the best piece of original research in American history, has been awarded Dr. Elizabeth Brett White, dean of women and professor of history in Ursinus College. Dr White's subject was "France-American Relations From 1812 to

1914."

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